Dr Kate Fagan

Kate Fagan is a writer, editor and musician whose books of poetry include The Long Moment, Thought’s Kilometre and return to a new physics. She wrote a doctoral thesis on Lyn Hejinian and is a former editor of How2, a US-based online journal of innovative poetry and poetics. She is also an established songwriter and performer whose album Diamond Wheel won the National Film & Sound Archive Award for Best Folk Album.

Kate’s critical interests include Australian poetry, twentieth-century American poetry and poetics, cultural and textual theory, experimental writing and contemporary music. Her current research involves Literary Communities and Contemporary Australian Poetry.